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G. W. LAWBAIIGH, OF GENESEO, ILLINOIS.

Letters Patent No. 74,921, dated February 25, 1868.

IMPROVEMENT IN HARIWESS-PAD PRESS.

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TO ALL` WHOM IT MAY CONOERN:

VBe it linown that I, G. W. LAWBAUGH, of Geneseo, in the county oi' Henry, and State of Illinois, have -invented certain new and useful Improvements in a Harness-Pad Press; and I do hereby declare that the fol` lowing is a. full and complete description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to' the accompanying drawings, making o, part ot' this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of the press. Figure 2 represents the pad. Figures 3 and 4 are sections of the press detached. Figure 5 is n longitudinal vertical section through the press. Like letters of reference refer to like parts in the different views.

The pressis made in two sections, A und B, of which the section A forms a bed, and B a follower. The

hed is coved ont in the middle, as shown at A', in Eg. 4, and also in fig. 5, the depth, size, and shape that the pad is to be pressed.' VOn the inside of the section or follower B; to niatch into the cove A', there is a core, B, 4as shown in rigs. 3 and 5. At one end o f the section A of thc press are pivoted the ends of an adjustable stirrup, C, in which there are thumb-screws, cl, that, when the stirrup is turned'up-'over the end ofthe press, are screwed down upon thefollower B, as'shon'n in iig. 1, thereby holding `,the two` sections together. At the other end of' the press, in the centre, there isn)l hand-screw, F, that screws through lboth sections, holding the sections together at that end.

The leather, when prepared for pressing, is placed over the cove A on the bed, when the follewer'is put down on the hed, the core Bpressing the leather, J, down into the cove, when the adjusting-screws F and d'd are turned, so as to tighten the sections or Ycause them' to fit closely together, pressing the leather between, as shown in fig. 5. In this way the leather is first pressed down 'in theeove and around the core B', before the edges e (tlg. 2) begin Vto be pressed, and, by means of Athe serews'F and d OZ, the sections can be adjusted or screwed nearer together, at one end or one side, than the other, in this way being adapted to the various thicknessesvot` the leather, which is very'npt to be thicker in some places than in others. When the leather is sufficiently pressed, the screws el cl and F are unscrcn'ed, and the stirrnp turned down off the end, when the follower can be detached and the pad removed, which will be of the shape represented in iig. 2.

This press is very simplein its construction and operation, and presses the leather pads in the most desirable manner.

What I claim as'my improvement, and desire to secnrehy LettersPatcnt, is-

The combination of thc bottom plate A, stirrup C, screws (Z d, top plate B, and screw I", constructed and arranged in thcmanner herein as shown and described, and for thc purpose set forth.

c. nj. LAWMUGH.

Witnesses:

W. H. Lummen, A. W. McCLnnLAND. 

